~~~Night~~~
"Man I want to go to clubs." Chiharu sighed out loud.
"Yeah, stupid Tigers, why did they have to start when we come here?" Rika asked frowning.
"Well isn't that the reason why we came?" Yue said.
"They can at least wait for a week or two." Naoko said as she snuggled her head into Aki's chest making him smile.
"Let's go now." Sakura said as she walked out of the house. Apparently there were two taxis waiting for them. The couple went into one and the rest went to the other. The taxi drove them 3 blocks away from the mansion and they got off there.
During the ride Sakura called Wolf and told them that they were on there way.
~~~ Inside the Mansion~~~
Wolf walked down and found the whole group in the living room including Syaoran. The girls were playing guitar hero while the guys just sat back and watch. His phone rang in his pocket and the boys looked up to find him standing there watching them.
"Hello." Wolf said answering his phone.
"We are outside now." Chiharu said over the phone. Apparently Sakura did not want to call so she had to.
"Alright, I'll come out right now." Wolf said as he hung up his phone.
"You guys stay in here, I will be back in a minute." Wolf said to them and continued,
"Do NOT come out, understand?"
The girls stopped playing there games and listened to what Wolf said.
"Why can't we go see whose outside?" Jamie asked. He is currently looking out the window and saw six figures standing next to there gate.
"Just listen to me." Was all Wolf said and left.
When Wolf walked out of the house, Syaoran stood by the open door. The others gathered around the big couch and looked through the windows.
"Who do you think they are?" Nakuru asked the group.
"Who knows? Maybe it's his assassins." Ryu said.
"I thought they were going to move here. Why doesn't he want us to know who they are?" Synthia asked.
"Wolf has his own reasons." Fuji responded as he continue to peak out the windows.
~~~Outside~~~
"Hello Wolf." Aki said smiling. The others said there hello while Sakura just bowed down.
"Here are the keys" Wolf said as he handed them out.
"Who's going to take the extra motorcycle?" Yue asked as he got on the dark blue bike with a thunder symbol.
"Well you guys are going to come back after you finish the mission. So just take what you need and leave the rest here." Wolf responded, watching them get on there bikes/car.
"Where's the white one" Chiharu asked, there was suppose to be 5 motorcycle.
"I covered it and left in the garage." Wolf responded smiling. "I know that you and Naoko don't use since you guys like driving your cars more."
"Thanks Wolf!" Naoko said smiling. "Well since we are going to come back after the mission I'll leave my car here too and ride with Chiharu when we do the mission." She continued and got on the Yellow BMW. Sakura got on the black bike, Aki got on the gray one, and Rika went on the dark brown one. Sakura wore her helmet and the others followed except the two girls in the car.
~~~Inside the Mansion~~~
"Wow I never knew Wolf have so much assassins." Jamie whispered in shocked.
"I wonder who that person is." Tomoyo said as she saw a figure got onto the black bike.
Syaoran who was beside the door was looking at that figure too. The way that person move was perfect. The way he/she walked was fast and smooth. Because of the dark night and far distance, he could not tell its gender. Even though there were others, he kept his eyes only on that figure. He can tell that that person's martial art was well trained and much more skilled than the others by the way he/she walks.
"Wolf is right, she is skilled." Eriol said walking beside Syaoran and looked at that figure like Syaoran. Syaoran ignored Eriol and kept his gaze on the figure.
"If his group really joins, we would become stronger." Eriol continued to talk, knowing very well that his cousin was listening but pretending to ignore him.
"We still don't know if they are trustable." Syaoran said, now looking at the other figures.
"If they work for Wolf, I believe they will be loyal to us." Eriol said smiling. The others on the couch was still looking out the windows and talking about the mysterious group.
"You know…" Meiling said as she started to talk. "The person on the black bike looks familiar. "I can't make out who it is though." She said while frowning.
"Well if you know that person then we definitely should know too." Nakuru said.
"Yeah." Synthia said as she cut into their conversation.
"Ahhh oh well, I can't think of who it is." Meiling said as she walked across the room to the other couch and slumped down.
The bikes and cars roared to life and disappeared into the dark. Everyone started to spread out the room while Syaoran and Eriol walked back as Wolf came in.
"Who are they?" Jamie asked even though they already know the answer.
"My assassins." Wolf answered.
"So those bikes and cars are theirs?" Fuji asked as he wrapped his arms around Nakuru. Wolf walked up the stairs and answered a soft "yeah" before going to his room.
~~~ Few Days Later ~~~
"Hey Sak, we have the info now. When do we start? We can do it today afternoon." Chiharu suggested, holding a file of Tiger's territory information. They have been looking for the information of the building for the pass few days.
Sakura nodded and put the earpiece in her ear before she loaded her guns.
"Sakura, can I talk to you for a second?" Rika asked nervously, looking down at her feet and twirled her fingers. Sakura nodded again, grabbing some weapons and followed Rika to the corner of the room.
"Can I do the mission and you be the back up?" she asked, scared that Sakura might yell at her but then again she know that Sakura does not like raising her voice. Sakura who was putting pocket knives around her body and few other in her shoes looked up.
Sakura's sharp gaze met Rika's. "Why?" Sakura's cold voice answered and went back on putting some weapons in her jacket.
"I want to try it and since its not killing, it won't be so hard right?" Rika asked and bit her bottom lip.
By now, Sakura finished checking all her weapons and paid her attention at Rika. Sakura's voice was softer but still cold.
"Are you sure?" a hint of worry was hidden in her voice. Rika relaxed and smiled hearing her voice.
"I'm 100% sure!" she answered.
Sakura nodded her head and walked back to the group. Everyone looked up from what they were doing and stopped.
"Rika is going to be in do this mission." Sakura announced loudly. Gasps were heard from the group. Naoko and Aki eyes widened. Chiharu and Yue gawked at Rika and Sakura.
"Seriously?" Aki asked with disbelief. Rika smiled and nodded her head happily while Chiharu squealed.
"Nice girl. Good luck." Yue said laughing lightly.
"Sakura, are you sure about this? Rika can do other missions. We're sneaking in the Tiger's territory this time, it might be more dangerous. Don't you need to think it over?" Naoko asked worriedly, frowning.
"Don't worry about it Naoko. Sakura is my backup so it's all fine." Rika said budging into there conversation. Naoko sighed in defeat.
"When you get in the room, take this out." Naoko said to Rika and handed her something as big as a cell phone. "It's a tracker; turn it on and when it is near the hard drive it will start beeping."
"I will ride in the car with Chiharu." Naoko said and continued, "The rest of you will take the motorcycle. Sakura will be Rika's back-up sneaking inside the building with her while Yue and Aki stay outside, around the building in case they need help. Chiharu and I will stay few blocks away with the laptops and earpiece controls in case any of you need help."
"Oh yeah, Sakura, Rika." Naoko said getting their attention again. Both of them looked at her and she continued, "Park near the freeway so if anything happens, you can always get away faster." They nodded their ends and turned away.
Everyone putted the earpiece in there ear. Rika had 2 guns in her holsters like Sakura while the others only had 1. Just like planned, Chiharu and Naoko got into one car, while the others got onto the motorcycles.
~~~Syaoran and his group~~~
"Hey man, remember we were going to go to the beach last time and end up not going? Wanna go this time instead?" Fuji said with hope in his eyes. The girls looked up and burst with questions and comments about the beach. At the end all of them agreed to go.
"Which part do you guys want to go to?" Meiling ask thinking.
"How about the one near Tokyo?" Tomoyo suggested. Eriol who didn't care just nodded his head and started to kiss his girlfriend's neck making her giggle.
Jamie and Takashi rolled there eyes, "Go get a room man." Jamie said.
Eriol smiled, "I will tonight." He winked at Tomoyo. Everyone burst with laughter.
"It's pretty far though." Nakuru said wrapping her arms around Fuji and laid her head on his shoulder.
"Doesn't matter as long as we're having fun right?" Meiling said stuffing some food inside her mouth.
Syaoran who was sitting a little apart from them kept his hood over his head and listened to there conversation. He was cold hearted like usual. Not caring about anything. Whenever he hangs out with them that means he is not mad and he is the strongest out of them all so no one would want to mess with him.
"So Syaoran you're going right?" Ryu said pulling Synthia on his lap. Syaoran nodded his head and walked to the kitchen.
"Then let's get ready and go in one hour." Takashi said and continued, "Did you guys know that ten thousand years ago the earth use to be all water but then there was this one guy who created some pills to split the water in half, and that was how land
was created."
Jamie rolled his eyes and the other members laughed.
"You should really stop with the lies man." Fuji said.
"Hey! It's true!" Takashi protested.
"Whatever." Meiling said and rolled her eyes and continued, "Let's get ready and go in one hour then." The girls nodded and drag there boyfriend up while Jamie and Takashi went to their own room.
~Sakura's Group~
Rika was really nervous since this was her first time. She had always wanted to be like Sakura, brave and fearless. What if I fail? Rika asked herself many questions and all of them seem to be negative. She shook her head and concentrated on the road.
"I can do it." Rika whispered to herself and tried to get confident.
They spotted the building they were looking for. It was built in red bricks and it looked old. They parked at the place Naoko said and waited until everyone settled down.
"You remember which path leads to the room that has the hard drive?" Chiharu asked Rika through the ear piece.
"Yup" Rika whispered back taking off her helmet. She walked near the building sneakily and enter through the black entrance. The place seemed deserted and really little people go around it. Sakura followed behind and watched her back.
Rika reached the top and was going to turn when she heard a voice. She instantly step back, behind the corner and waited there. Sakura came from behind and leaned against the wall stiffly. Both of them peaked out from the corner to see if they leave yet but they didn't.
"Man if this work out maybe Tiger will check me out." The girl giggled as she flirted with the guy in front of her.
"He'll probably make me a leader and I'll get any girl on my bed anytime." He roared with laughter and wrapped his arm around her waist. "Let's go back now." He said and she walked with him.
Rika and Sakura waited until the hall was clear. Rika stood in the front door and prepared to knock. She nervously bit her bottom lip and raised her hand. She knocked on the door twice and ran around the corner where Sakura waited for her. No one opened the door so she went back and opened the door slowly. She looked around the room and saw no one there so she locked the door behind her.
She went to the side walls where the files were sitting. She toke out the tracker and moved it around places to see where the flash drive was hidden. She frowned when she found nothing. She then went to the table drawers and moved the tracker around it. The tracker started beeping when she moved it in front of the bottom right drawer. She turned off the tracker and opened the drawer. There the hard drive was, sitting there with nothing around it.
She reached inside the drawer and toke the hard drive and it felt like she tugged a string.
"Shit." Rika whispered. The alarm went off, she jabbed the hard drive into her pocket and ran to the nearest window. She was glad that the building is only 2 floors high and her motorcycle was right below the window.
Sakura managed to find a dark quiet room and hid there when people were starting to stampede toward the room Rika was in.
Rika heard the stomping of footsteps and banging on the door. She quickly looked around to see how she would get down. She found a pipe near the window and used it to climb down. Rika revived her engine and drove toward the freeway. When she looked back there were at least 10 tigers chasing after her.
"Yue, Aki! Help Rika! She's going heading toward Tokyo!" Naoko rushed her words out quickly hoping that they would quickly go there and help her.
"Got it." Yue and Aki said at the same time as they chased after her.
Sakura managed to slip out of the building and got onto her motorcycle to chase after her team.
~~Freeway~~
"Ay guys look. I wonder if they're having a motorcycle race." Tomoyo asked when she looked back and saw like 10 motorcycles.
The boys who are riding a motorcycle heard the roaring engines behind them and looked back.
"What the hell!" Takashi said as the first one passed him, which apparently was a girl.
When the others passed them, Synthia manage to spot a tiger tattoo on one of the guy's arm.
"It's the tigers!" Synthia gasped. Usually there wasn't that many together except in clubs or there hideouts.
"Syaoran!" Meiling yelled out the window alerting him. Eventually he had already notice about it and has been on guard. He nodded his head and watched his rear mirror incase for more people coming.
"The tigers have passed us and did not even notice our present," thought Eriol. They must be doing something more important than observing their surroundings.
Nakuru gasped when she saw one of the men pull out a gun. All the boys instantly stayed alert and were about to reach for their guns but that man did not point the gun toward them. Instead it was pointed to the person who Takashi had seen, the girl who was on the lead.
Seeing that tiger was not attacking them Eriol waved his hand in front of the group. They knew what it meant, do not attack.
"Girls we still gotta stay alert," Meiling said to the girls in the car. All the girls were riding in the car, Fuji, Jamie, and Ryu in another while the rest were riding the motorcycle.
Tomoyo bit her bottom lip as she heard the first gun shot.
"Don't worry." Synthia said and continued, "They are shooting at the front so as long as we stay behind them then we're fine." Nakuru nodded in agreement.
Rika swerved her motorcycle left and right as the tigers behind her continue shooting.
She took her gun out of her hostel and managed to shoot 1 guy behind her but missed the other 3 that she shot out.
"Aki, Yue, Where are you guys?" Rika growled through the speakers. She was definitely having a hard time getting away.
The wolves looked in the rear mirror and saw three motorcycles and 1 car speeding toward them. Two motorcycles passed them and the car was getting nearer while the third motorcycle gassed and passed the car.
Aki and Yue passed the wolves and each of them managed to shoot down 2 men.
There are a total of 5 tigers left.
One of the tiger continues shooting aimlessly and one of the bullets managed to pierce through Rika's right leg.
"Ahh!" Rika cried out in pain through the microphone.
"Rika hang on! We're right behind you!" Naoko said with worry.
Sakura narrowed her eyes when she saw the wolves. She had figured that the tigers and her group did not notice them because they were too busy chasing but Wolf had shown Sakura how his gang look like so she noticed it right away when she spotted them.
It was no surprise that the wolves are not attacking because they will not go into a futile fight. It was wise for them to choose this choice because fighting on the freeway is reckless. Sakura know that they would always choose the best way to ignore fighting.
So even though the wolves are near, Sakura would not hope for them to help her. It was also best to not get involve with them without Wolf's permission. She also knew that the reason why Wolf never let her get involve with his gang was because it was too dangerous for them. If Sakura fails to do a mission and someone finds out that she was with the wolves, something would definitely happen to his gang and that was what he was afraid of, endangering his gang.
Sakura moved to the left of one of the wolves' car as she passed. She turned her head right and met the gaze of the driver.
Meiling heard the sound of the engine pass her and looked to the left. Her eyes bore into the emerald green ones and she gasped. She watched as the driver zoomed off and she stepped on her gas petal harder.
"What are you doing?" Syaoran growled as he went beside Meiling's car. Fuji quickly sped up in front of Meiling's car and slowed her down.
Meiling rolled down her window and yelled out to Syaoran," That's the girl that saved me about 1 year ago!" Meiling pointed at the motorcycle that just passed her and everyone looked.
Syaoran narrowed his eyes and zoomed after the figure while Eriol smiled to what Meiling said.
"This is getting interesting." Eriol thought to himself. They had been looking for this person for about a year without any clue and there she was right in front of them.
Sakura had finished off 3 of the men while Naoko and Chiharu toke care of the other 2.
Rika quickly exited the freeway and the rest followed so they could tend her wounds.
"Go ahead." Sakura said as she looked at her rear mirror. "I'm being followed." Sakura continued. She did not exit the freeway like others and instead she continued driving forward.
"Shall we take care of them then?" Aki asked even though he already left the freeway.
"No, these are the wolves; I will try to get them off my tail. Just take care of Rika and I'll meet you guys back in the house." Sakura responded to Aki.
~~~ 1 hour later ~~~
"Damn it" Syaoran growled as Sakura kept going. He had been chasing her for an hour already and she managed to lose the others that were behind him. He had to admit, she was pretty good and it made him wonder how good she is in fighting.
Sakura breathed deeply in annoyance since she could not get rid of Syaoran. She continued to drive in alleys, doing sudden turns, and speeding faster.
She did a sudden turn again which alerted Syaoran. He turned around the corner and stopped when a truck went pass him. When he spotted her, he instantly zoomed off.
After few blocks she finally stopped and got off her motorcycle. She walked up and Syaoran quickly got onto his foot and grabbed her shoulder. She turned around and had a question looked in her face.
"Crap." Syaoran whispered.
"Sorry wrong person." He said to her. She nodded and walked off.
~~~ Sakura ~~~
When I turned around the corner, a truck went behind me and I used this opportunity to get away. I drove into the parking lot nearest to me and quickly turned off the engine. When the truck disappeared I saw a woman who looked like me with a black motorcycle coming out from her garage and drove off. When I looked behind her, I saw the wolf that was chasing me chase after her. I finally lost sight of him. After sitting on my motorcycle for around 30minutes, I went back to the house.
I walked into the house and found everyone crowded in the living room. Apparently Rika had her leg wrapped up and everyone was sitting on the sofa chit chatting.
"Got the hard drive?" I asked particularly to no one as I sat next to Rika
"Yup!" Naoko responded proudly while hugging Aki's arm. Aki toke out the hard drive and twirled it around his fingers.
"How's your leg?" I asked Rika.
"Heh It's fine." She smiled and I nodded.
"Sakura." Yue said my name and I looked up.
"What is it?" I asked and walked toward the kitchen to get a cup of water.
He opened his mouth but instantly shut it when he received a smack on his head.
"What was that for?" He glared at Chiharu who was apparently pouting.
"I said I would be the one telling her!" She yelled and crossed her arms furiously. Yue simply rolled his eyes and sat down. He never liked arguing since he thought it was bothersome.
I closed my eyes and repeated myself, "What is it?"
Chiharu looked up and said, "Wolf called and said we are meeting with his gang tomorrow… except you."